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$undefined$ Ash's Journal, 4th of July, 1689.

$undefined$ Macariæ Excidium, ed. by O'Callaghan, p. 42.

$undefined$ Harris, Life of William III., p. 285.

$undefined$ Griffyth's Villare Hibernicum, quoted by O'Callaghan, Notes to Macariæ Excidium, p. 368.

$undefined$ 'The period since the Reformation in which the Irish Catholics were most unmolested in their worship was the reign of Charles II.' &hellip; ' It is true that the laws of Elizabeth against Catholicism remained unrepealed, but they had become almost wholly obsolete, and as they were not enforced during the reign of Charles II. it was assumed that they could not be enforced after the Treaty of Limerick.'—Lecky: Histroy [sic] of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, vol. i., p. 139.

$undefined$ The British Government admitted, but did not pay this debt. Hamill, the representative of the defenders of Derry, having spent his means in dunning the Government for over thirty years, was himself thrown into gaol for debt. From his prison he issued The Danger and Folly of being Public Spirited, &c., Lond.: 1721. Witherow quotes his plaint: 'We have lost all our estates, our blood, and our friends in the service of our country, and have had nothing for it these thirty-three years and upwards but Royal promises, Commissions without pay, recommendations from the Throne to the Parliaments, and Reports and Addresses back to the Throne again, finely displaying the merit of our service and sufferings and the justness of our claims.'  249